Collar button



C B HAND COLLAR BUTTON Filed Feb. 13 1924 Sept. 2 1924.

N M 4 E Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

CLARENCE B. HAND, 0F MAPLEWOOD, MISSOURI.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Application filed February 13, 1924. Serial No. 692,537.

To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. HAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Maplewood, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in collar buttons, and consists in the novel features of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

The present invention is directed to collar buttons having separable parts so that they may be more readily inserted in the collar button holes. and is an improvement over my Patent No. 1,481,? 99, dated January 29, 1924. The principal object of my improved collar button is the provision of more secure holding means for the removable button stem, as well as providing better fastening means for the tie holding pin. Further advantages will be better apparent from a detailed description of the invention in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a cross-section taken through the collar flaps showing the button in place and the pin engaging the necktie; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved button; Fig. 3 is a top plan of the collar button with parts broken away;v Figs. 4 and 5 are cross sectional details taken on the lines 44 and 5-45 of Fig. 3 respectively; Fig. 6 is a crosssectional detail taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2. r v

Referring to the drawings, (1., a represent the overlapping ends of the shirt band, and

b, 7) represent the collar flaps, all of which are secured together by my improved collar button C. the hook or pin of which holds the tie it in place.

The button G consists primarily of a head 1 and stem 2 removable therefrom. The head 1 comprises an outer cup 3 and an inner cup 4 insertible therein, the inner cup 4 bearing against and holding in place the loop 5 of a. pin 6, said loop resting against the side 6 and top wall f of cup 3. The bottom wall it of said cup 4 has a central opening Zr: and diametrically opposite slots m, m communicating therewitl is square in cross-section it will fit snugly in the corner between said side and top wall.

The pin6 projects through an opening 0 in said top wall 7 and extend about the center thereof.

Within the head 1 a disc 7 is placed, said disc having a U-shaped portion 8 formed across its diameter which bears against the s over said wall to inside of top wall f while the sides of the disc on either side of the portion 8 are springy and bear against the inside of the bottom wall it of cup 4. The formation of the portion 8 of the disc 7 provides a recess 8 for receiving the cross-head 9 of stem 2, said head 9 being inserted in the recess 8' through opening and slots m, 'm, and on turning the stem the disc 7 will be rotated until the cross-head bears on the bottom wall pit of cup 4 and is thus positively confined between the top of recess 8 and said wall it. In. order that the disc .8 may be locked in both its position for the stem to be inserted into it and in its position after stem and head are assembled, I provide oppositely disposed tits, 10, 10 on the disc 7 which will enter recesses 11, 11 in the wall it of cup 4 when the recess 8- and slots m, m are in register. After the stem 2 is inserted in recess 8' and disc 7 turned about 90, the tits 10, 10

. Since the-loop 5 will enter the slots m, m to hold the disc 7 g in place. Fig. 6 illustrates the relative posi tions of head and stem bothin assembling them and after they are assembled, in the former case the stem being shown dotted.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1,. A collar button comprising a hollow head and a stem detachable therefrom. and a revoluble disc within said head, the bottom wall of said head being provided with a slot and the disc being provided with a recess adapted to register therewith, said stem havmg a cross-head adapted to enter said slot and recess, means for securing the stem into the head on rotating said disc so that itsrecess is out of register with the slot in the head, and means for holding the slot and recess in non-registering relation.

2. A collar button comprising a hollow head and a stem detachable therefrom said head comprising an outer cup and an inner cup, a hook projecting from the top wall of the, outer cup and having a loop Within said cup, said loop being'held in place by the inner cup, a disc Within the head, said disc having a recess adapted to register With a slot in the bottom Wall of the inner cup, and

said stem having a cross-head adapted to enter said recess through sald slot, and means for securing the stem. to the head by rotating said stem and disc relative to the head.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

CLARENCE B. HAND. 

